The movie Adaptation that we watched in class is based on the non fictional book "The Orchid Thief" by:Susan Orleans, in the movie the main character is Charlie Kaufman (Nicholas Cage) and he seems to be a very miserable man, he has a very low self esteem and is constantly calling himself fat, he has no luck when it comes to the ladies, and is sexually frustrated. Also he is a screenplay writer in this following movie he is suppose to write a screenplay for the book "The Orchid Thief" so they can make a movie out of it but Charlie is having a hard time coming up with a screenplay because he wants to make this movie different he wants to tell a story about the opposition of change not about overcoming obstacles.
Due to this he faces many problems because he can't adapt to change, he believes that there is nothing to write about the book, and that there is little bit of information given to make it into a movie. He eventually turns into his twin brother for help because he is a thriller writer and that's what he needs in his screenplay, he needs action, thrill to make it into a good movie.
From there on as we all saw we had a hard time figuring out what was part of his imagination and what was reality. The author confuses us by including events that happen in reality and he joins it with clips that are fictional. The meaning to the movie is indeed the title itself which is adaptation. Everything throughout the movie is caused to adapt. Charlie is suppose to adapt to the book to write a screenplay, the author Susan is suppose to adapt to her life, and lastly the orchids are suppose to adapt to their environment.
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